Collecting rainwater just makes sense: It conserves a precious resource and reduces water bills. Plus, plants love chlorine-free rainwater! Our large-capacity Deluxe Rain Barrel has smart features that make it easy and convenient. Four ports let you attach several hoses and link multiple barrels. An overflow outlet diverts excess water away, and there’s a safety grid and removable debris screen on top. It includes a 4' hose with on/off thumb valve that connects to a standard garden hose, and three end caps for the ports you’re not using.

This rainbarrel seems well built but the design is sort of unusual. The overflow hose inside the barrel doesn't seem very secure and the outlet hose has the on/off thumbswitch on the wrong end. It is on the end near the barrel and is inconvenient. It doesn't fit the other way.

I live in an area plagued with drought so this huge barrel is an awesome way to collect and conserve water. This spring, I found the bottom had cracked on my rain barrel and the company replaced it with a new barrel immediately. The customer service from Gardeners Supply is the best I have ever received from a company. My only complaint would be that some of the plastic components don't stand the test of time. The inner hook area on the lid, for the tube on the inside, cracked immediately. The plastic attachment that is supposed to hold the watering tube on the outside is also pretty fragile. Breaks after a couple of seasons of exposure. Excellent product overall though.

I'm sure it was the way we used it, but we even tried to raise it up a bit on cinderblocks - and that was difficult to do. The screen developed holes. When there was a great deal of rain, water splashed off the top of the screen and hit the siding at the corner of the house where the gutter was - and we're now removing the barrel and replacing the siding at a significant cost.

I thought this would be the perfect fix to my lugging watering cans to and from the garden. The only thing that was left out was the fact that if you place the barrel as seen in the magazine...you get very little water flow. The barrel must be raised up in order for gravity to help it along. Felt that that was left out of the advertising for it. Would recommend to a friend with my add on of raising it up.

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Bottom LineYes, I would recommend this to a friend

Merchant response: Thank you for taking the time to write a review of one of our products. I'm sorry to hear that you were disappointed with your 4-Port Deluxe Rain Barrel (#40-201)! While it is true that raising the barrel up will provide better flow there is also a variety of products such as a rain barrel pump or our Rain Barrel Super Siphon (8588589) that will also help increase the water flow. We do offer a 100% guarantee of all of our products, so please call us at 1-800-876-5520 and we'd be happy to assist you in resolving this issue to your satisfaction.

This is a very good rain barrel. I have 3 different ones, all from Gardener's Supply, and all 3 have tiny issues. I mean really tiny. This one is handsome, high - capacity, with multiple hose ports. I have it up on cinder blocks to improve the water pressure, and I attached a hose to two ports, while still being able to fill a bucket or watering can from another. The only weird thing is that the screen top frame warped after 1 day in the hot NC sun, and the design of it has a moat that allows water to stand/stagnate around the top rim. I weighted it down with rocks to correct the warping, and found a tree frog sheltering in the water under the rocks one day. Hopefully he'll eat the mosquito larvae in the moat! We do spray for mosquitoes, so it isn't a big issue in my opinion. Just something to consider in the next redesign.

This is the second rain barrel I've purchased from Gardeners and am happy with both. This one is bigger and has more hose hookups, so it is now sitting in the vegetable garden under a small rain runoff lead. Lightweight hoses enable effective watering between rows. So happy to have it. The first one is next to the house, filling from a downspout for watering flowers. Great for gardeners!

We use it as a standard rain barrel, collecting water from a downspout for garden watering in dry New Mexico. It suits our decor and purposes (though due to the size of the roof that this downspout drains, a barrel that holds more than 75 gallons would be better - and using two connected barrels is not visually appealing beneath this downspout). The AWFUL thing about these barrels is that the port outlets are plastic but garden hoses and other attachments are metal; so, with use (screwing hoses on and off), the plastic threads of the ports are ruined, rendering them useless (i.e., they no longer accept the attachments without letting water leak from the barrel). Gardener's Supply customer service phone personnel tried to be helpful, sending us free metal "connectors" but these DO NOT solve the problem as they too have to connect onto the ruined plastic threaded outlets. I would recommend this barrel IF the port outlets were metal, or had a metal spigot/faucet for the outlet (as at least one other brand of rain barrel does have).

The over flow spout is great, until a wind storm- I would suggest something metal to pin around it so it doesn't blow off in high wind areas. This product worked great for us all year- I really appreciate the mesh cover to detract mosquitos and the short hose, which can help water nearby plants. The weight (empty, of course!)is great, as it's easy to move for one person.

We bought it to use as a rain diverter because when it rained hard the water coming out of the downspout washed away our mulch. We have solved that problem by using the rain barrel to control the amount of water going into the garden by attaching hoses to it which allows the rain to come out of the barrel in different directions and at a slower speed.